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SPECIAL INVITATION FOR THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE BULLETIN
As promised, we bring you a special invitation to an event organised by the Fondation Napoléon.
You are cordially invited to be present, 19 March, 2002, at 6-30pm at the Bibliothèque Marmottan, for the presentation of the book by Professore Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, The Myth of the Hero. France and Italy after the fall of Napoleon, published by the Bibliothèque Napoléon.
Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, from the Istituto universitario orientale, Naples, is to present his work and sign copies of the book.
Bibliothèque Marmottan: public entrance 7, place Denfert-Rochereau
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Metro: line 10, Direction - Boulogne, Station - Jean Jaurès
Bus: 52 Denfert-Rochereau stop
Telephone: +33 (0)1 41 10 24 70
THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE - MARCH
After being conquered, the more established parts of the Grande Empire experienced French rule for years and at first hand. Camille de Tournon, prefect in the eternal city, Rome, is the perfect example of the Napoleonic administrator.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO
13 March (22 Ventôse, An X), the Ministère de la Marine published the telegraphic dispatch from the Préfet maritime de Brest, dated the evening of 21 Ventôse: "The navavl forces entered the bay of the Cape on 16 Pluviôse. When the vessel left, the whole army had disembarked; the town and the whole of the Northern plain had been occupied by our troops. The courrier carrying dispatches left yesterday evening for Paris.
NB. The fleet took 52 days to reach Saint-Domingue."
La Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, 22 Ventôse, An X
18 March 1802 (27 Ventôse, An X), of 240 members of the Tribunat and the Corps législatif due for re-election those returned were reappointed by sénatus-consulte, thus Bonaparte was able to distance the principal opponents of the regime, namely Benjamin Constant, Daunou, Isnard and Thibault.
In constitutional terms, reappointment was supposed to be decided by drawing lots.
18 March 1802 (27 Ventôse, An X), the publication the Citoyen français drew up a review of publications in 1801, taking its information from the Journal général de littérature française which had just been published: "of the 1185 works published [...] the physical sciences and mathematics have produced 171; the economic sciences and practical arts have produced 90; the moral and political sciences, 354, and [...] the domain of literature has been reduced to 117, amongst which no doubt a certain number deserve to emerge from the obscurity which so many modern authors seem to condemn themselves..."
[It is not known how many of these books were really new as opposed to mere republications]
Wishing you a very enjoyable, Napoleonic, week.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
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THIS WEEK:
Journal News
- La Revue Napoléon, January, February, March 2002
Agenda
- Exhibition: photographs by Gustave Le Gray
- Auction: Important photos from the Viollet-le-Duc collection
The monthly titles: in March,
- Book of the Month: 'Napoleon III and his regime' by David Baguley
- In Pictures, The Siamese Ambassadors by Gérôme
- in Biographies, a biography of Camille de Tournon, prefect of Rome
- In the Collectors Corner, a gold leaf from Napoleon's coronation crown
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